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Amazon AWS vs Pantheon comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon AWS
Ranking in PaaS Clouds
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
258
Ranking in other categories
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (2nd)
Pantheon
Ranking in PaaS Clouds
27th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Web Hosting Services (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the PaaS Clouds category, the mindshare of Amazon AWS is 13.5%, up from 12.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pantheon is 1.2%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
PaaS Clouds Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon AWS13.5%
Pantheon1.2%
Other85.3%
PaaS Clouds
 

Featured Reviews

Asif  Meem - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at sportsbet
Managed cloud services have helped accelerate experiments with flexible configuration options
Sometimes the costs associated with spinning up a service, especially managed services, have implications. For example, if I create a Glue job, that will create S3 buckets and other resources that have cost implications, but once I clean up a Glue job, it does not delete the other accessory resources. Sometimes, I have to go hunting for what resources Amazon AWS might have provisioned and how it is costing behind the scenes. It can be complex depending on your level of expertise. It is not as easy to get started, especially when it comes to secure practices. Amazon AWS is more hands-on than other platforms.
Abhinand Gokhala K - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at Bigone Technologies
The product is user-friendly and performs well, but it is very costly compared to other tools
We are a software development company. We recommend solutions to our clients, but they ask us to compare it with other solutions. Clients compare the monthly costs of Pantheon with other servers and ask us to create the same environment in dedicated servers. If Pantheon reduces its cost, we can confidently suggest it to clients. Overall, I rate the tool a seven out of ten.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable features of Amazon AWS are ease of use, deployment, and short lead time. If you are using an on-premise solution, you need to wait for the hardware, and nowadays it is very difficult, the lead time becomes very long. We propose to our customers to use Amazon AWS because it is very easy, no need to wait for hardware delivery."
"Amazon AWS is good in terms of deployment and user experience. Their certificate management and load balancer are also good features."
"Overall, this is the best IaaS for hosting the website and the database."
"It integrates well."
"We have many projects where we can resolve a lot of issues with Amazon AWS. It has given customers a lot of visibility with their data. Many customers do not know what they can learn from their data and I provide them with this using useful information using Amazon AWS."
"Technical support has been great. They are helpful and responsive. They are very fast."
"The features with Amazon AWS that I have found most valuable are its flexibility and high availability. These are the most important and attractive points for me."
"Amazon is a really good solution with high performance. They offer more connectors than some of their competitors, such as Microsoft Azure."
"The product allows users to create multiple development environments."
"Pantheon has the most valuable workflow model."
 

Cons

"The security right now needs improvement. It's not bad, per se. It's just that there's always room for improvement in security."
"I think Amazon could improve some of the security or fine-grained access for metadata and many other things."
"It can be daunting because of the number of AWS products there are."
"In the next editions, the use of this tool should be extended to Google and Apple operating systems."
"The product would be better if it was more secure."
"We have had some difficulty figuring out how to monitor how many EC2 instances have been networked into our entire enterprise. We usually try to create a diagram outside of AWS. The types of information we are trying to determine are, for example, what hardware devices are interconnected, and when was the interconnection made."
"As a result of the competency, I believe that most people are now leaning toward Azure rather than AWS."
"It has the technical support features, but they need to be improved."
"The Multidev environment is very costly compared to other tools like AWS and GCP."
"Pantheon has the most valuable workflow model."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There are no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fees."
"Amazon AWS has pay-as-you-go options available."
"We are happy with the pricing."
"Amazon AWS is on the cheaper side, as their pricing is more competitive. There are no additional costs besides the license. However, Azure sells Microsoft licenses, so they have an advantage."
"Amazon AWS is a bit more expensive than Oracle."
"One of the best thing in Amazon AWS is you are billed for the service you use."
"We are not happy with the general price and find most of Amazon's products to be quite expensive."
"It is not the cheapest one, but there is a good ratio between the quality of service and the pricing. Its price is good for me."
"The platform has reasonable pricing compared to other systems."
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Comparison Review

it_user8586 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Aug 14, 2013
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Educational Organization
6%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Healthcare Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Construction Company
9%
Educational Organization
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business131
Midsize Enterprise48
Large Enterprise114
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Also Known As

Amazon Web Services, AWS
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